Lutheranism is a religious trend derived from Catholicism, founded by the German monk and theologian Martin Luther, in the early 16th century. Lutheranism is one of the branches of the Protestant Reformation, which also includes Calvinism, Anglicanism, Anabaptism, and Presbyterianism.

The military government has a structure which distinguishes it from other groups in the political system and this distinctiveness of the military may lead one to expect that the military can intervene more frequently in government than it does.